Meat-tenderer.



3 w/m ssss No, 894,'872. 4 PATENTED AUG. 4, 1908.

S. ARMSTRONG. MEAT TENDERER.

-' APPLICATION FILED JUNE 18, 1907.

. ATT OHNEY SHERMAN ARMSTRONG, OF SHELTON, CONNECTICUT.

MEAT-TENDERER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 4, 1908.

Application filed June 18, 1907. Serial No. 379,589.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SHERMAN ARMSTRONG, a citizen of the United States, residin at Shelton, county of Fairfield, State of onnecticut, have invented a new and useful MeatTenderer, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to meat tenderers and has for its object to provide a simple and inexpensive implement of this character which shall be strong and durable, may be readily attached to a table, may be readily taken a art for the purpose of cleaning and as readi y put together, and which shall be so constructed that the cutter head may be made from sheet metal, thus enabling me to produce a light, strong and durable implement of this character at a minimum cost of construction.

With these and other'objects in view I have devised the novel tenderer of which the following description in connection with the accompanying drawing is a specification, reference characters being used to indicate the several parts: 6

Figure l is a view partly in elevation and partly in section, illustrating my novel tenderer as in use; Fig. 2 a view of the shaft with the cutter head removed; and Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the cutter head removed from the shaft and showing the latch by which it is locked to the shaft.

10 denotes the base which is adapted to rest upon a table, indicated by 11, and is pro vided with an angle arm adapted to pass under the table and carrying a clampin screw 12 by which the implement is secure? in place. At the inner end of the base is a standard 13 having a hole 14 to receive the inner end of the spindle which is indicated by 15. At the outer end of the shaft is a standard 16 having in one side a slot 17 which is likewise adapted to receive'the spindle and is provided with holes to receive a vertical pin 18 by which the shaft is locked in place. At the outer end of the spindle is a crank 19.

20 denotes the shaft which comprises a tube 21 secured to blocks 22 and 23 which are rigidly secured, respectively, to the inner and outer ends of the spindle. Block 22 is provided with a slot 24 for a purpose presently to be explained, and block 23 is provided at its outer end with a flange 25 having an inwardly extending pin 26.

27 denotes the cutter head as a whole which is open and may be readily removed from the shaft for the purpose of cleaning. The cutter head comprises a series of radially placed cutter strips 28 each provided with a series of angular teeth or projections indicated by 29. The cutter strips are provided at their ends with lugs 30 whlch engage slots in end disks 31 to which the strips are secured by riveting or soldering. The cutter strips are additionally braced and supported by sheet metal rings 32 lying intermediate the end disks, three being shown in the drawing, which engage slots 33 in the cutter strips, as clearly shown in Fig. 1, the cutter strips being soldered or otherwise rigidly secured to the rings. 'The end disks are provided with central openings 34 which just receive the shaft, permitting the cutter head to be readily slipped to place on the shaft or to be removed therefrom. The outer end disk is provided with a hole 35 which receives pin 26 and holds the cutter head a ainst rotation on the shaft, and the inner end disk is provided with a ivoted latch 36 which engages slot 24 in blocl r 22 to lock the cutter head in place on the shaft.

The cutter head, spindle and shaft are readily removable from the standards by removing pin 18 from the standard 16, after which the spindle may be moved out from slot 17 and withdrawn from hole 14 in standard 13. The cutter head may be removed from the shaft by simply lifting latch 36 out of. slot 24 in block 22 which permits the cutter head and the shaft to be separated. The tube, spindle and blocks are rigidly secured together and form, in practice, one piece which is readily cleaned. The cutter head likewise is readily cleaned when removed from the shaft, as it is open and all parts thereof are readily accessible for cleaning.

The machine is assembled again by placing the cutter head over the shaft with pin 26 1n engagement with hole 25 and the cutter head is locked in place by placing the latch in engagement with slot 24 in block 22. The innor end of the spindle is then placed in hole 14 in the inner standard and the outer end of the s indle is slipped into slot 17 in the outer stan(l ard and locked in place by means of pin 18.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. In a device of the character described, the combination with a shaft comprising a spindle and blocks secured near the ends thereof, one of said blocks being provided ing central openings w with a flange and pin and the other with a slot,- of a cutter comprising a series of radially-placed cutter strips and end disks to which the cutter strips are secured, one of said end disks being provided with a hole to receive the pin and the other endedisk with a latch adapted to engage the slot in the corresponding block.

2. In a device of the character described, the combination with a shaft comprising a spindle and blocks secured near the ends thereof and a tube secured tosaid blocks, of a removable cutter com rising end disks havhich receive the shaft, cutter strips engaging the end disks and intermediate rings engaging the cutter strips and means for detachably securing the cutter to the said blocks.

3. In a device of the character described, the combination with a shaft comprising a spindle, blocks secured near the ends thereof, one of said blocks having a flange and an inwardly extending pin and the other block having a slot and a tube secured to the blocks, of a removable cutter comprising a series of radially placed cutter strips and end disks to which the cutter strips are secured, one of said end disks engaging the flange and being provided with a hole to receive the pin and the other end disk being provided with a latch adapted to engage the slot in the corresponding block to lock the cutter in place on the shaft.

4 The cutter 27 comprising a series of radially placed cutter strips, end disks to which the cutter strips are secured, intermediate rings carried by the cutter strips, a spindle carrying end blocks, and means for detachably connecting said end disks to said blocks, substantially as described, for the purpose specified.

5. A device of the character described comprising a base provided with shaft bearings, a shaft removable therefrom and provided with end blocks, a cutter comprising u end disks carrying radial cutting strips, and a latch carried by one of said end disks and ada ted to engage with one of said end bloc s to retain said cutter in operative position.

6. In a device of the character described, the combination with a base having a clamping screw and standards, a shaft comprising a spindle removably engaging the standards,

blocks secured near the ends of the shaft and a tube engaging the blocks, of a cutter hcad comprising radially placed cutter strips and end disks to which the strips are secured and means for removably securing the end disks to the blocks.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, 1n presenceof two witnesses.

I SHERMAN ARMSTRONG.

Witnesses:

CAnLos H. Sronns,

WILLIAM A. ARMSTRONG. 

